Calycoceras

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Calycoceras
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Gasteropods - Ammonites - Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) spinosa.JPG
Calycoceras asiaticum spinosum, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) from Madagascar, abt. 94 Mya
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily: Acanthoceratinae
Genus: Calycoceras
Hyatt, 1900
Species
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Synonyms
  • Newboldiceras

Calycoceras is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and family Acanthoceratidae that lived during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous, 100-94 Mya. [1] Their shells had ornate ribs. [2]

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Species

Distribution

Calycoceras species may be found in the Cretaceous of Angola, Antarctica, Canada (British Columbia), France, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Oman, Russia, the United Kingdom, United States (Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah) [3]

C. asiaticum may be found in the Cenomanian of Canada, Southern England, northern and southern France, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Madagascar, south India and Japan. [3] [9]

C. cenomanense may be found in the Cenomanian of United Kingdom, France and Madagascar. [10] [11] [12] [13]

Calycoceras orientale, Late Cretaceous from Japan. Calycoceras orientale.jpg
Calycoceras orientale, Late Cretaceous from Japan.

Description

Shells of Calycoceras asiaticum may reach a diameter of about 20 centimetres (7.9 in). The larger phragmocones may reach 59–72 millimetres (2.3–2.8 in) in diameter. Coiling is moderately involute. All ribs show strong subspinose tubercles. C. asiaticum asiaticum and C. asiaticum spinosum are very similar, the latter has much more robust tuberculation. [3] [14]

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